Summary:
New Athens CUSD 60 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, all at the same New Athens address, with 488 students across elementary, junior high, and high school. The latest results are from 2025–2026: the elementary and junior high have comparable IAR results, while the high school reports ACT and PreACT results. Chronic absenteeism is below the state rate at all three schools—8% at elementary, 14% at junior high, and 14% at high school, compared with 24% statewide. The clearest overall standout is junior high’s strong IAR performance.
New Athens Junior High leads the comparable all-grades IAR results, with 80% proficiency in ELA and 59% in math, versus 63% and 54% at New Athens Elementary. That is a 17-point ELA gap and a 5-point math gap; both schools are above state results in both subjects. Junior high is also above the state in all six reported grade-level IAR comparisons, including a 27-point advantage in grade 6 math. Elementary’s main exception is grade 5 ELA: 52%, 3 points below the state. New Athens High School is above state results in all three grade 11 ACT subjects, but its grade 9 and 10 PreACT results are mixed.
Recent changes are uneven: elementary all-grades IAR results fell 5 points in ELA and 7 in math from the prior year, narrowing its state-relative margins by 8 points in each subject. Junior high ELA was nearly unchanged and its state-relative margin narrowed by 3 points, while math rose 3 points and its margin widened by 2. SchoolDigger ranks the district 253rd of 738, in the 66th percentile with 3 stars; its school rankings are in the 62nd percentile for elementary, 84th for junior high, and 61st for high school. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 22% at elementary, 35% at junior high, and 32% at high school; student-teacher ratios were 14.9, 13.9, and 11.7, respectively. These figures describe different school circumstances and do not explain the score differences.
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